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Girard is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Kent County, located along Texas State Highway 70 in the Rolling Plains southeast of Lubbock.

Girard was born with the arrival of the Stamford and Northwestern Railway about 1909, and was named for the bookkeeper of the Swenson Land and Cattle Company, whose owner donated the railroad's right-of-way.

Girard received its own post office in 1909, the same year the railroad arrived.

By the 1920s Girard could boast about twenty businesses, including a hotel, an ice plant, a theater, and a newspaper.

Girard was hit hard by the Great Depression and the postwar move to cities — by the 1980s its population was well below 200, though its three churches remain active.

Girard was first counted as a CDP in the 2000 census with 62 residents; it recorded 50 people in 2010 and 53 in the 2020 census.

Girard's own school was merged with Jayton's in 1969 to form the Jayton-Girard Independent School District, whose single campus in Jayton serves students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Girard sits in Kent County, one of the least populous counties in Texas, which counted only 753 residents in the entire county in the 2020 census.